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Inès sez…

Inès sez…
To heat things up this winter wear a lacy bra under your cardigan, its the sure fire way to keep the gentlemen around you feeling a little hot under the collar.

Inès is the face of l’Oreal Rivatlift, for heaven’s sake! She’s fifty! I know women who believe that turning fifty is going to be the beginning of the end, but Inès knows better. She’s French so she knows, unflinchingly that there is no age for being hot, it is all about style and owning your sexuality. Even my daughters’ 72 year old French Mamita turns men’s heads with her elegant chignon and pencil skirts and winter is no reason to cover up.

This understanding is one of the things I adoooore about living in Paris. I don’t have to go to workshops to remember that being sexy is a great, healthy part of life, I’ve got women like Inès and the ads on bus stops to remind me that there is no age for workin’ it!

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My two cousins were once on a family vacation and saw this gorgeous woman walking along the beach. My one cousin who wasn’t wearing his glasses nudges to his younger brother to ‘check out the babe’. My younger cousin looked up and in absolute horror goes, ‘dude, that’s mom!’. My aunt is 62 is looks (naturally) incredible for her age and half of it is how she carries herself. So she would definitely disagree that 50 is the beginning of the end.

Like we were talking about the other night, the idea of beauty is different here than it is in the youth-obsessed/picture perfect States. It’s more subtle here, I’d say…